Altéris

What Altéris does

Altéris is a French boutique consulting firm specializing in crisis prevention, diagnosis, and resolution for industrial, social, and relational crises affecting organizations and their leadership. Founded by Vincent Calais—a labor law jurist with approximately 30 years of experience—the firm operates as a SASU with €30,000 share capital, headquartered in Bonningues-lès-Calais and maintaining a secondary presence in Lille to serve clients across the Hauts-de-France region and beyond. The firm assists companies, public institutions, and industrial sites facing acute or latent crises, whether technological, industrial, social, or relational, that threaten operations, reputation, or management stability.

The firm's service portfolio comprises ten interconnected consulting modules delivered through a structured four-step methodology (demand analysis, written proposal, execution, and client debrief). Core offerings include social diagnostics based on document analysis of communications and institutional image, individual and collective interviewing of management, employee representatives, and stakeholders, facilitation of internal and public meetings, drafting of press releases, crisis scenarios, white papers and charters, executive coaching and management support, and training programs with role-playing and filmed crisis simulations. Underlying all services is a deliberate rejection of standardized consulting recipes in favor of bespoke, singular analysis tailored to each crisis, grounded in founder expertise spanning psychosociology, bioethics, and labor law.

Commercially, Altéris operates as a sole-practitioner-led professional services firm charging clients on either a fixed fee (forfait) or time-spent basis, with all pricing communicated through written proposals approved prior to engagement. The go-to-market motion is enterprise field sales executed through direct outreach, professional referrals, and embedded presence in the Hauts-de-France business community, supplemented by a LinkedIn company page and academic publications as top-of-funnel thought leadership channels. Customer segments span organizations in crisis situations (industrial sites, public institutions, companies), executives and managers seeking impartial external perspective, and industrial facilities managing neighbor and institutional stakeholder relations; all engagements are delivered in-person or via video conference.

Name

Altéris

Legal name

SASU Alteris

Website

https://alterismanagement.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Altéris is a French boutique consulting firm helping organizations and executives prevent, diagnose, and resolve industrial, social, and relational crises through bespoke advisory, training, and stakeholder coordination services across the Hauts-de-France region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Crisis Management Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Turnaround, Restructuring & Crisis Management Consulting (BPAHACAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Change Management & Transformation Consulting (BPAHAGAC)

Keywords

• Crisis management consulting
• Internal investigations
• Organizational management
• Crisis communication strategy
• Executive advisory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bonningues-lès-calais

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Consulting and Advisory Services: Professional services fees charged either as a fixed fee (forfait) or time-based (temps passé), depending on the nature and duration of the engagement. Fees are proposed in writing and approved by the client before commencement.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Altéris is a boutique consulting firm providing crisis management, internal investigation, and organizational management services to executives, managers, and organizations. The firm helps clients anticipate, prevent, diagnose, and resolve industrial, social, and relational crises through a structured four-step methodology: demand analysis, written intervention proposal, execution, and client debrief.

Product overview

Altéris is a consulting firm providing professional services in crisis management, internal investigations, and organizational management. The company operates as a unified consulting practice offering multiple interconnected service modules: diagnostic social (social diagnosis), individual and collective interviews, meeting facilitation, document drafting, executive coaching, and professional training programs. These services are delivered through a structured four-stage methodology (demand analysis, intervention proposal, execution, and restitution) and are designed to help executives manage industrial and social crises, organizational conflicts, and complex stakeholder relationships.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Diagnostic social (Social Diagnosis)

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• BearingPoint: European-headquartered management and technology consultancy with transformation, change management, and organizational consulting practices. Comparable to Altéris on organizational diagnostics and management support, but at large-enterprise scale.
• FTI Consulting (Strategic Communications): Global advisory firm with a major crisis communications and restructuring practice (including the former Taddeo in France). Competes for the same executive-suite crisis and restructuring engagements Altéris targets, but at multi-billion-dollar scale.
• Alvarez & Marsal: Global professional services firm specializing in restructuring, turnaround, and performance improvement. Directly overlaps Altéris's restructuring, layoff, and crisis-management mandates for industrial clients.
• Publicis Consultants: French public affairs, communications, and crisis-management consultancy within the Publicis group. Provides the same kind of executive-level corporate communications and crisis advisory work as Altéris, with significantly broader resources.
• Havas Paris (Image Sept): French communications group offering corporate communications, public affairs, and crisis management. Comparable offering to Altéris's communication and stakeholder coordination services for French industrial and institutional clients.

Direct peers

• Taddeo: Paris-based crisis communications and public affairs consultancy serving European corporates on sensitive communications, M&A, and crisis situations. Closest French-headquartered direct peer to Altéris in scope of crisis, communications, and executive advisory services.
• Brunswick Group: International advisory firm focused on critical issues, crisis communications, and stakeholder engagement. Overlaps with Altéris on crisis management, executive coaching, and stakeholder articulation, but Brunswick operates globally with hundreds of partners.
• Kekst CNC: Global strategic communications consultancy specializing in crisis, M&A, and change management communications. Comparable to Altéris in the sense of advising executives during organizational and reputational crises, though at far greater scale.

Regional players

• RPCA: Paris-based crisis communications and litigation PR consultancy serving French corporates and their executives. Overlaps with Altéris on crisis response, executive reputation, and sensitive communications work in France.
• Symphony Communication (formerly Hopscotch): France-headquartered communications group with crisis, public affairs, and corporate communications practices. A comparable French peer in the executive advisory and crisis communications space, though larger and more diversified than Altéris.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/alteris-management

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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